From upstream it looks like a long arcaded box laid across the river ; ;

From the terraces -- eighteen in all -- broad flights of steps descend into the water or onto still more terraces barely above the level of the river.

From the upper end of the lake the river issues through the Nidau-Büren channel and then runs east to Büren.

From Okhla the canal follows the high land between the Khari-Nadi and the Yamuna and finally joins the Banganga river about below Agra.

From 1944 to 1971, pump systems drew cooling water from the river and, after treating this water for use by the reactors, returned it to the river.

From Kampong Cham the gradient slopes very gently, and inundation of areas along the river occurs at flood stage — June through November — through breaks in the natural levees that have built up along its course.

From the river the city starts to slope north up a hill, which is steep at some points.

From Keban to the Syrian – Turkish border, the river drops another over a distance of less than.

From Worsley to the rapidly-growing town of Manchester its construction cost £ 168, 000 (£ as of ), but its advantages over land and river transport meant that within a year of its opening in 1761, the price of coal in Manchester fell by about half.

From Najaf he journeyed to Wasit then followed the river Tigris south to Basra.

From there, Ibn Battuta travelled southwest along a river he believed to be the Nile ( it was actually the river Niger ), until he reached the capital of the Mali Empire.

From the dark chasm a fountain violently erupts, then forms the meandering river Alph, which runs to the sea described in the first stanza.

From Krzepice, the border goes eastwards, towards Koniecpol, and along the Pilica river, with such towns as Przedborz, Opoczno, Drzewica, Białobrzegi, and Kozienice within Lesser Poland.

From Givet, the river is canalized over a distance of 272 kilometres.

From then on, several stretches of the original Merwede were named " Maas " ( i. e. Meuse ) instead and served as the primary outflow of that river.

From the north it is joined by the river Coca, having its sources in the gorges of Cayambe ( volcano ) on the equator, and also a powerful river, the Aguarico, having its headwaters between Cayambe and the Colombian frontier.

From its Coca branch to the mouth of the Curaray the Napo is full of snags and shelving sandbanks, and throws out numerous canos among jungle-tangled islands, which in the wet season are flooded, giving the river an immense width.

From the Amazon the Napo is navigable for river craft up to its Curaray branch, a distance of about 216 miles ( 350 km ), and perhaps a bit further ; thence, by painful canoe navigation, its upper waters may be ascended as far as Santa Rosa, the usual point of embarkation for any venturesome traveller who descends from the Quito tableland.

From the Arab conquest 637 CE until modern time the city of Mosul on the opposite bank of the river Tigris became the successor of ancient Nineveh.

From Louisville, the river loses depth very gradually until its confluence with the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois, where it has an approximate depth of.

From Salto del Guairá, where the river enters Paraguay, the Paraná River flows 800 km to its juncture with the Río Paraguay and then continues southward to the Río de la Plata Estuary at Buenos Aires, Argentina.

From the man who had leaped in from the high bank outside, as the train had slowed on the grade.

From 1970 until 1998, Jardine Matheson operated a pan-Asian investment banking joint venture, Jardine Fleming, with Robert Fleming & Co., a London merchant bank controlled by the Fleming family.

From its conception until 1965, the bank undertook a relatively low level of lending.

From 1968 to 1980, the bank concentrated on meeting the basic needs of people in the developing world.

From December 1947 to May 1955 Gombrowicz worked as a bank clerk in Banco Polaco, the Argentine branch of Pekao SA Bank.

From their conclusion that incorrect central bank policy is at the root of large swings in inflation and price instability, monetarists argued that the primary motivation for excessive easing of central bank policy is to finance fiscal deficits by the central government.

From its left bank, it receives the waters of such important tributaries as the Tormes, Huebra, Águeda, the Côa and the Paiva, all originating in the Sistema Central.

From the right bank, it receives the waters of the Sabor, the Tua and the Támega, originating in the Galician Massif.

From 1982 to 1991, Clifford served as chairman of First American Bankshares, which grew to become the largest bank in Washington, D. C.

From 1973 to 1977, Duisenberg was Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Joop den Uyl, Shortly afterwards, he gave up his seat in the Dutch parliament to become vice president of Rabobank, a Dutch bank.

From the late 1860s and through the 1870s, Paola grew and progressed, building its first school, jail, and bank.

From the 1830s to the 1860s, the area saw a great deal of traffic due to the Mormon Trail, which passed along the north bank of the Platte River.

From a secure bank vault, the answers to Twenty One, a popular primetime quiz television show, are sent into a television studio as studio producers Dan Enright ( David Paymer ) and Albert Freedman ( Hank Azaria ) watch from the control booth.

From here to the North Sea, it forms part of the boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire on the north bank and North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire on the south bank.

In many baby name books, Shelley is listed as meaning " From the meadow on the ledge " or " clearing on a bank " sometimes truthful and pretty.

From 1938 and until he was elected president he was the director of Útvegsbanki Íslands, an Icelandic bank which later merged with three other banks and became Íslandsbanki ( which later became Glitnir ).

From here it followed the east bank along what is now Main Street to a point well above the falls.

From it some pretty gardens and promenades ( Kaiserin Augusta Anlagen ) stretch along the bank of the Rhine, and in them is a memorial to the poet Max von Schenkendorf.

From 1837 to 1862, in the Free Banking Era there was no formal central bank, and banks issued their own notes again.

From 1941 to 1948, he served as Chairman of the bank.

A typical, yet simple, description under this system might read " From the point on the north bank of Muddy Creek one mile above the junction of Muddy and Indian Creeks, north for 400 yards, then northwest to the large standing rock, west to the large oak tree, south to Muddy Creek, then down the center of the creek to the starting point.